Feather Griddle-Cakes (With Yeast)

Ingredients

• a pint of water or milk
• a teaspoonful of salt
• half a teacupful of yeast
• one teacupful of thick, sour milk
• two eggs well beaten
• a level tablespoonful of melted butter
• a level teaspoonful of soda
• flour enough to make the consistency of pan-cake batter

Method

1. 1

   Make a batter at night with water or milk, salt, and yeast.

2. 2

   In the morning, add sour milk, beaten eggs, melted butter, soda, and flour to achieve pancake batter consistency.

3. 3

   Let it stand for twenty minutes, then bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 167. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FEATHER GRIDDLE-CAKES. (With Yeast.) Make a batter, at night, of a pint of water or milk, a teaspoonful of salt, and half a teacupful of yeast; in the morning, add to it one teacupful of thick, sour milk, two eggs well beaten, a level tablespoon- ful of melted butter, a level teaspoonful of soda and flour enough to make the consistency of pan-cake batter

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